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680-Comets and Asteroids(454)
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the other hand, watching major meteor showers will allow you…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
168E-180-An Eternal One
Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski found a faint moving point of light in the night sky. After his discovery observations were posted on the Minor Planet Center's website it was observed …
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
679-Hammer(453)
When Asteroid Hunters find a relatively large asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth, the challenge is to change its path to make it miss our home planet.
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
167E-179-Planets,Billiards,&Alchemy
"I do not know how I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier …
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
678-Greg's Comet(425)
Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest of the members of our solar system.
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
166E-178-Monster Telescope
Imagine a monster telescope that can collect 37 million times more light than can enter your eye. A huge telescope with this capability, planned by the European scientific community, will sit atop a…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
677-30 Years of Fireballs
Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send in your report to the American Meteor Society and b…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
165E-177-Flying Peanut
For 16 years, since its discovery at Lowell Observatory, humans knew 1999 JD6 only as a strange, spinning, moving point of light in the night sky. It orbits the Sun once every 303 days on a path that…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
676-Cloud 7(449)
To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 hours, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowals…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
164E-176-Weird Life
Our everyday world is in the thin web of life that surrounds our planet. We see living organisms made possible by solar energy, water, air, and nutrients from the Earth. Maybe all living creatures ar…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago